The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-14
FOLLOWING THE CLEWS.
MORE EVIDENCE CONCERNING THE
BEAULIEU MYSTERY.

The Woman Traced Back to Charles
ton, from Whence She Hailed-Others
Testify to Seeing the Suspicious Paii
The Negro Seen in Savannah.
The investigation OF the Beaulieu mystery
Is slowly bringing out the facts in connec
ton with the pair who are supposed 10 bC
the two principal actors in the tragedy en-
acted short while ago. Ii was Learned
yesterday that the negro man had been al
Isle of Hope on Aug. Il, and while thore he
tried to hire a boat from Mrs. Nell. He
took train later IN the day and came 10 the
city. Ii seems also that the woman who
disappeared with him was in the vicinity
longer than was supposed, for Mrs.
Nell remembers that she worked
for her for four days prior to
Sunday. Aug. y, the date when she made
her first appearance NJ Virginia Harris. On
Saturday night, Aug. -, Mrs. Nell dis
charged her, and IL was then that she sought
shelter with the Harris woman, who at the
time, claimed to have known her previously
but who now denies that she had ever seen
her, or that the woman ever staid in her
house.
An intimation was given of the way in
which the woman probably got to Isle of
Hope If the story is true she was living in
a house of questionable character in Charles
ton, and there met the captain of fishing
smack The captain was somewhat smit-
Ten with the doubtful charms of the soiled
dove, and, while III a state of intoxica-
ton, he married her, and, taking
her aboard his boat sailed away
with her. He touched at several points
along this coast, and at every one of them
he tried to get rid of bis bride, but she re-
fused TO leave him. His sloop was driven
aground at Montgomery, and both himself
and his wife left and came ashore. He
started for Savannah to obtain funds to put
the boat in shape and she remained at
Montgomery. He returned to Mont
gomery, and after he got his
boat afoa. he sailed away,
but the woman was not with him nor has
she been seen at Montgomery since. 1t is
thought that she made her way to Isle of
Hope, and that her career there is the one
told of the woman supposed to have
been murdered. The dates correspond,
the sloop having arrived at Montgomery
about Aug. 49, The woman was from
Charleston, and that bears out the story
of Annie, who stated that she was from
that city. The fact, also, that she gave no
other name indicates that she was Of the class
from which the captain took his bride
The statement of Mrs Nell that the
given appeared at Isle of Hope
within a few days of the arrival of the
woman, then disappeared and returned a
short time later, and finally departed with
the woman, seem, to point suspicion against
him ~ str sel's-, and the people of the
vicii tnsnk that the evidence
against him is strong enough
to warrant putting an officer
on his track A letter from DIR. Dupon to
the MORNING NEWS urged that detective
be sent out at once, for the Doctor is of the
opinion that the man can be caught The
Doctor desires to confront him with those
whose statements were given yester-
day and then demand of him tho woman
with whom he was last seen
A number of the builders of the
city were seen yesterday and asked if they
knew of such negro carpente- as this man
is said to be- and while several of them re-
membered having seen such an one, they
could not locate him, or say who he was It
seemed certain, however, that the man who
disappeared with the woman has been in
Savannah, if he is not here now.